Family Centered Care in Critical Care, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America

In this issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, guest editor Danielle Leone-Sheehan brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Family-Centered Care in Critical Care Nursing. A growing body of evidence supports that family-centered care results in shorter hospital stays, reduced complications, reduced anxiety, higher adherence rates, lower health care costs, and reduced nursing burnout. This issue explores the tenets of family-centered care so that the goals of improved patient outcomes, enhanced family satisfaction, reduction of patient and family anxiety, and promotion of continuity of care can be achieved.